Trimming.



H. BERLIN.

TRIMMING.

APPLICATION FILED 00121, 1915.

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TRIMMING.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented July 4, 1916.

Application filed October 21, 1915. Serial No. 57,166.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, HARRY BERLIN, a

citizen of the United States, and a resident of New York, in the borough of Brooklyn, county of Kings, and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Trimmings, of which the following is a specification. My invention relates to embroidery trimmings as used for millinery and the like, and more especially to imitation straw which is made from silk or the like, and the main object thereof is to provide an effect or appearance of such straw not hitherto obtained.

My invention is fully described in the fol lowing specification, of which the accompanying drawings form a part, in which like characters refer to like parts in each of the views, and in which Figure 1 is a side view of my invention as viewed in the direction of the arrow X. of Fig. 3, with the ends partly unwound to show the component elements of the product; Fig. 2 is a similar view in the direction of the arrow Y of Fig. 3; Fig. 3 is a section taken on the line 3-3 of Fig. 1; and Fig. 4 is a section taken on the line 4-4 of Fig. 1.

My invention consists of a strand 5 formed by twisting two ribbons 6 and 7 together, said ribbons having previously been corrugated or undulated by any suitable process which renders the corrugations or undulations permanent, as by means .of manual or mechanical means, whereby said ribbons are permanently locked in their twisted conditions. This twisting may be accomplished by the mechanism shown and described in the application for Letters Patent filed herewith by me on the 21st day of October, 1915, serial No. 57,165, or by any other suitable means.

The feeding of the ribbons 6 and 7 in the twisting operation is so timed as to have the flat portions between the bends of one ribbon register with the flat portions of the other ribbon in order that the bends will lock the ribbons together, but it will be noted that the flats 8 of the ribbon 6 are angularly disposed with respect to the flats 9 of the ribbon 7 to produce the desired result, in other words the edge of one flat 8 bears against the contiguous surface of the corresponding flat 9, and the reverse, thus insuring register of the corresponding bends. In this way I produce a heavier effect, as well as a very peculiar effect not hitherto produced, over the present use of but one ribbon, and I also produce a substantially square end appearance, as shown in Figs. 3 and 4.

Having fully described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. As an article of manufacture, an embroidery trimming consisting of a strand formed of two corrugated ribbons twisted one upon the other with the edges ofthe flats between bends of one ribbon in register with the flats between bends of the other ribbon, to cause the respective bends to register to permanently lock said ribbons in twisted condition.

2. As an article of manufacture, an embroidery trimming consisting of a strand formed of two corrugated ribbons twisted one upon the other with the edges of the flats between bends of one ribbon registering with and bearing uponthe respective flats between bends of the other ribbon.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

HARRY BERLIN. Witnesses:

J. G. LARsEN, PHILIP D. RoLLHAUs.

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